Health-related quality of life in survivors of severe COVID-19 infection.

Background: Long-term effects of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) are increasingly recognized as having a significant impact on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Understanding HRQoL status for each patient affected by long COVID-19 and its determinants may have a key role to prevent and treat this condition.

Methods: In this prospective observational study conducted in a large academic COVID-19 hospital in Rome, participants were contacted 2 years after hospital admission for severe COVID-19.